Leonardo: long-term perspectives and occupational protection for Automation

Ensure a solid future for Leonardo's Genoese automation hub by intervening as soon as possible on organization, governance, processes and dimensions, also to protect employment levels. This is the position that the company confirms regarding the prospects of the Automation Business Unit in Genoa.

Leonardo's automation reference market requires a lean cost structure and strong operational agility, in a highly competitive context characterized by highly focused and large global players, which have imposed over time a completely new business model based on on flexible and multi-platform agreements.

Leonardo is committed to addressing all these aspects to ensure the best prospects for Automation and its workers.

"Among the various options Leonardo is working on is the search for a partner with an industrial perspective - also able to detect Automation over time - who can guarantee the Business Unit to be competitive in the long term, with an adequate size and a dedicated investment capacity. The first step - which Leonardo is already taking - is to make timely targeted interventions on Automation to guarantee the Business Unit a flexible and agile cost and governance structure, in line with its reference market, characterized by dynamics different from those typical of the Aerospace, Defense and Security market. These are choices that cannot be postponed if we want to ensure a solid future for this reality ”commented Simonetta Iarlori, Leonardo's Chief People Organization and Transformation Officer.

For Leonardo this path makes sense if two conditions are met: the long-term perspective and the safeguarding of the employment level. These are essential conditions. This is in line with what Leonardo has always demonstrated in the area, where he has been able to enhance his business over time, even those that are no longer within its perimeter and that demonstrate the goodness of the choices made.

In addition, Leonardo has chosen Genoa to launch his most significant long-term strategic initiative: the creation of the most advanced competence center dedicated to supercomputing, artificial intelligence and the cloud that will guide Leonardo's digitalization process and contribute significantly to that of whole country. A project of international resonance and significance, which prospectively will generate widespread value in the city, creating a system with the Universities and research centers of the area such as IIT, new skills and new technological areas capable of growing and attracting talents to Genoa. .

Leonardo Labs and Cyber ​​Security activities represent one of Leonardo's long-term strategic development assets, crucial to maintaining the group's competitiveness on a global level. An essential challenge, which will determine the existence of the national manufacturing industry, not only in Genoa.

In this way we are creating the conditions for the establishment of a new healthy and competitive industrial fabric. It is from the ability to make choices of this type, the result of a clear vision, of coherent development plans and with adequate investments, that the future is built.

This represents for Leonardo an assumption of great responsibility in the interest of people and the city also for future generations.

Leonardo: long-term perspectives and occupational protection for Automation

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